Cassandra Grantham (L) was recently honored as US CDC's
Childhood Immunization Champion for Maine. She is pictured with Tonya
Philbrick, Director of the Maine Immunization Program at Maine CDC.
The Maine Immunization
Program is proud to announce that Cassandra Cote Grantham, a health
communication specialist at MaineHealth in Portland, has been selected as the
US CDC Childhood Immunization Champion for Maine.
Cassandra was nominated and
selected from a pool of health care professionals, community advocates and
other immunization leaders for making a significant contribution to public
health in Maine through her work in children’s immunization.
In 2010, Cassandra established
MaineHealth’s childhood immunization program, with the goal of increasing
Maine’s childhood immunization rates to the highest in New England by 2016.
Under this program, she has launched several educational initiatives, such as
the Vax Maine Kids website and Kohl’s Vax Kids—a program to increase
immunization awareness among parents most likely to delay or skip their child’s
vaccinations.
To read
her profile on the CDC’s website and to learn more about CDC’s Childhood
Immunization Champion Award program, please visit http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/champions
